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ZyXEL ES-2000 Series
(ES-2024A / ES-2024PWR / ES-2048)
Ethernet Switch
Support Notes
Version 3.60
September 2006
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes INDEX How to manage & maintain your Switch? Firmware Upgrade Restore a Configuration File Backing Up a Configuration File Load Factory Defaults Physical Switch connection Connecting two switches via Fiber Channel General Networking DHCP option 82 (Relay Agent Information Option) Separating a physical network into many virtual networks Introduction to Virtual LAN Port Based Virtual LAN Setting up Port Based VLAN IEEE 802.1Q Tag-b
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes How to restart device from Web? How to check the current running firmware version? Is the mini GBIC transceiver hot-swappable? What are the differences between ES-2024 and ES-2024A? How much PoE Power can ES-2024PWR supply concurrently? Remaining: Some demonstration in this support note may not use the exact model that you are using. However, their functions and settings work the same way. How to manage & maintain your Switch? Firmware Upgr
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 4. Browse the firmware located or type in the path into the “File Path” field. 5. Click on the Upgrade button. From Console Port: 1. Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer. 2. Connect to the console port and open the Terminal Emulation Software. 3. Restarting the switch to enter the debug mode via the terminal. 4. Enter “ATUR”. 5. Use X-modem protocol to transfer (Send File) the firmware. 6. Enter “ATGO” to re
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 5 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Restore a Configuration File From Web GUI: 1. Click Management and then Maintenance in the navigator panel to bring up the following screen. 2. Click on the “Click Here” link of the Restore Configuration to bring up the following screen. 3. Browse to locate the file with the file name or type in the path and the file name into the “File Path” field. 4. Click on the Restore button. From Console Port: 1. Connect to the console port
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 2. Restarting the Switch to enter the debug mode via the terminal. 3. Enter “ATLC” 4. Use X-modem protocol to transfer (Send File) the firmware. 5. Enter “ATGO” to restart the Switch after done uploading the configuration file. From Command Line FTP: 1. Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer. 2. Launch the FTP client on your PC to login to Switch. (From the command prompt, type “ftp ”. 3. Press “Enter”
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Backing Up a Configuration File From Web GUI: 1. Click Management and then Maintenance in the navigator panel to bring up the following screen. 2. Click on the “Click Here” link of the Backup Configuration to bring up the following screen. 3. Click on the “Backup” button to bring up the File Download dialog. Then, clicking on the Save button to backup the configuration rom file to a proper location. From Console Port: 1. Connect
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 4. Use X-modem protocol to transfer (Receive File) the firmware. 5. Enter “ATGO” to restart the Switch after done uploading the configuration file. From Command Line FTP: 1. Download (and unzipped) the correct model firmware to your computer. 2. Launch the FTP client on your PC to login Switch. (From the command prompt, type “ftp ” 3. Press “Enter” for the User name 4. Enter password to get the ftp prompt. 5. Enter “bin” to set tra
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Load Factory Defaults From Web GUI: 1. Click Management and then Maintenance in the navigator panel to bring up the following screen. 2. Click on the “Click Here” button of the Load Factory Defaults to bring up the following screen. 3. A dialog pops up with the message “Are you sure you want to load factory defaults?”. 4. Click OK to go to the following dialog. 5. Click on the OK button. Now, all switch configurations has been reset
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Physical Switch connection How to connect two switches via Fiber Channel Your Switch may come with one or many mini-GB ports. ZyXEL offers Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers for Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel applications. These small, modular optical interface transceivers offer a convenient and cost effective solution for the adoption of Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel in data center, campus, metropolitan area access, ring
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes ZyXEL Switch with Mini-GB port x2 (note: ES-2024A / ES-2024PWR / ES-2048 comes with 2 Mini-GB Port) SFP-SX Transceiver x2 LC/LC Fiber Cable (62.5/125MM) x1 Here is the photo of the SFP-SX Transceiver & the LC/LC Fiber Cable. Steps to complete this scenario 1. First, pick up your ES-2108-LC and GS-4024Switch and power them up. 12 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Photo of the ES-2108-LC Switch 2. Find both Mini-GB Port on ES-2108-LC and GS-4024. 3. Get one transceiver and plug it into the Mini-GB Port of ES-2108-LC 13 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 4. Plug another transceiver into the Mini-GB Port of GS-4024 Switch 14 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 5. Remove both side of the protection cap from the LC/LC Fiber Cable. 6. Plug the LC/LC Fiber Cable into the transceivers on both ES-2108-LC and GS-4024 Switch. If you connected the cable correctly, the LED of the “LINK” will light up. 15 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes 7. Now, connect the first PC “Alpha” to ES-2108-LC and the second PC “Delta” to the GS-4024 via the regular Ethernet cable. 8. Set the NICs in both computers to the same IP Domain. (ex, PC “Alpha” :192.168.1.4/24; PC “Delta” : 192.168.1.5/24) 9. From PC “Alpha”, PING PC “Delta” at 192.168.1.5 10. From PC “Delta”, PING PC” Alpha” at 192.168.1.4 11. Now you can confirm that the network connection between ES-2108-LC and GS-4024 is up and runn
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes General Networking DHCP Relay Option 82 Application This feature is only available on ES-2048 ISP may want to limit the number of IP address or deliver some specific IP addresses according to certain Switch port, VLAN ID and option 82 string. They can easily to achieve this with DHCP Relay Option 82 feature and a DHCP server supporting Option 82 function. Network DHCP Server 192.168.1.99 Ethernet Port Port 25 DHCP Client 17 All content
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes How to set up DHCP Relay Option 82 Environment Here, we will set up an environment to allow a PC to get DHCP IP address in specific IP pool according to its Switch port, VLAN ID and the option 82 string. th In this case, we are using GS-3012 for the demonstration. PC is behind 25 Switch port and the option 82 string is a string “GS-3012”. We use the IP Commander as DHCP server. Its IP is 192.168.1.99 and the IP pool is between 192.168.1.201 and 19
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes server”. Input the DHCP IP address or domain name and click “ok”. Our IP is 192.168.1.99. 19 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
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ES-2000 Series Switch Support Notes Input user name and password. The default user name is “administrator” and password is “incognito”. 20 All contents copyright (c) 2006 ZyXEL Communications Corporation.
